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EVANGLIST, 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 

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C0NT6NTS. 

Introduction by Rev. Wm. McDonald. chapter 

The Nature of this Drug I 

Injury to the Health II 

The Expense of It Ill 

A Nuisance to the Home IV 

A Hindrance to Hohness V 

Testimony from its Victims . . ., VI 

Practical Conclusions VII 



* 'Having therefore these pro?mses, dearly beloved^ let us 
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit^ 
perfecting holiness in the fear of God,^^ 2 Cor,, y:i. 



IntroflilGtion, ^ Ren. Win. MBDonaW. 

Editor Christian Witness, Boston, Mass. 

There is no greater enemy to health, cleanliness, 
decency and morality, intoxicating liquors excepted, 
than tobacco. It is unhealthy ; it is uncleanly ; it is 
indecent, and it is immoral ; and no one can indulge 
in its use without doing violence to an enlightened con- 
science, blunting their moral sensibilities, and seri- 
ously retarding, if not putting an end to, all genuine 
spirituality. Its history ought to convey to us a les- 
son of value, and induce us to abandon it forever. 

Just when and where tobacco had its origin is not 
clear. Some have supposed that it originated in the 
fabulous ages of Greece, and to have derived its name 
from Bacchus, the god of drunkenness. That fabled 
god is said to have been the first to discover and dis- 
close to mortals the wonderful virtues of this weed. 
There is an old poem, written by Joseph Sylvester, 
dedicated to Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, with the 
quaint title, ^^"obacco Battered and the Pipe Shat- 
tered [about their ears who idly idolize so base and 
barbarous a weed ; or, at least, will overlove so loath- 
some a vanity,] by a Volley of Holy Shot from Mount 
Helicon.'' The author of this poem claims that it is 
dedicated to the ^'cup-god Bacchus," and that its 



b PIPE AND QUID. 

name is derived from the Greek word Bakcho. Here 
are bis words : — 

"For even the derivation of the name, 
Seems to allude and to include the same, 
Tobacco, as to Bakcho one would say, 
To cup-god Bacchus dedicated ay." 

But Humboldt has shown, and we judge more cor- 
rectly, that tobacco is a term in the Haytian lan- 
guage used to designate the pipe, an instrument used 
by the natives in smoking the herb ; which term, he 
says, was transferred by the Spaniards from the pipe 
to the herb itself, and has since been adopted by oth- 
er nations. 

The introduction of tobacco into England was by 
Sir Walter Raleigh, from Virginia. The English, 
during their stay in Virginia, and after their return, 
are said to have practiced smoking after the custom of 
the natives. The introduction of smoking into Eng- 
land, by Raleigh, and other young men of fashion, 
spread as rapidly among the English as it had among 
the Portuguees, Spaniards and French. Raleigh was 
accustomed to give smoking-parties at his own house, 
where his guests were treated to nothing except a 
pipe, a mug of ale and a nutmeg. Here we see the 
early and intimate relation which tobacco sustained 
to ale and strong drink — a relation it has never aban- 
doned. 

The Abbot Nyssens was confident that the devil in- 
troduced tobacco into Europe — a severe charge upon 
his Satanic majesty. 

In 1519 Cortez, the illustrious conqueror of Mexico, 
is said to have sent a specimen of this weed to his 
king, which is supposed to be the first ever introduc- 
ed into Europe. America has the dishonor of first 
producing the weed. But whether its growth was 
spontaneous here, or whether it came from a more 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 7 

southern soil to Virginia, is not known. It is certain 
that the English found it in Virginia on their first vis- 
iting the soil. Mr. Jefferson was of the opinion that 
it was a native of a more southern climate, and was 
handed along the continent from one tribe of savages 
to another until it reached us. 

The comparative value of tobacco, in early times, 
may be inferred from the following fact : We are 
told that the increase of adventurers in Virginia, from 
year to year, was so great that the male population 
far outnumbered the female, making wives exceed- 
ingly scarce. To supply this lack they were obliged 
to import women as they did articles of merchandise. 
In 1620 and 1621, no less than 150 girls were import- 
ed to the Virginia market, all of whom found a ready 
sale. The price of a nice young lady, at first, was 
one hundred pounds of tobacco. Subsequently the 
price of tobacco went down, or the price of young 
ladies went up, for we find that the price of a nice 
young lady was one hundred and fifty pounds of to- 
bacco. This fact alone should induce every lady who 
has any respect for herself to wage eternal war with 
this foe of a decent, cleanly home. 

Smoking was the first form in which tobacco was 
used, and for a long time it was the only mode in 
which it was used in Europe. An old epigram on the 
subject of smoking has been preserved among the 
curious things of the past, which runs thus : — 
"We buy the dryest wood that we can find, 
And willingly would leave the smoke behind ; 
But in tobacco a thwart course we take, 
Buying the herb only for the smoke's sake. 

During the reign of George III. smoking went out 
of fashion among the higher and middle classes, and 
SNUFFING took its place. This was the second mode 
of using tobacco, and, we must confess, the most ob- 



8 PIPE AND QUID. 

jectionable mode, especially when practiced by fe- 
males. Catherine de Medici, the person who instiga- 
ted the horrible massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, 
is said to have been the first to invent and introduced 
snuff-taking. And, in order to be very polite, they 
adopted the method of using a little ladle, or spoon, 
with which the snuff was applied to the olfactories. 
This practice prevailed extensively among the En- 
glish ; so much so that the Rev. Samuel Wesley, with 
a good deal of sarcasm, says : — 

' 'To such a height, with some has fashion grown, 

They feed their very nostrils with a spoon ; 

One, and but one degree is wanted yet, 

To make their senseless luxury complete, 

Some choice regale, useless as snuff, and dear, 

To feed the mazy windings of the ear." 
So far as we know, this ''choice regale*' for the ear 
has not yet been discovered, but we cannot tell what 
may come in the future. We have somewhere heard 
it said, ironically, we presume, that a substitute for 
tobacco had been discovered, which was likely to 
come into general use. Such an expectation is based, 
it is said, upon the fact that the new article is much 
cheaper and twice as nasty. 

^^ Whatsoever things are pure, ^^ — Bible. 



PIPE AND QUID. 

CHAPTER I. 

THE NATURE OF THIS DRUG. 

1. Tobacco is a deadly poison. It is classed by 
chemistry under the ^ ^Narcotics" which are defined 
as [Enc. Brit.,] ^ ^Substances having the physiologi- 
cal action, in a healthy animal, of producing lethargy 
or stupor, which may pass into a state of profound 
coma or unconsciousness along with complete paraly- 
sis, producing death.'' 

It belongs to the same class of anodynes and hyp- 
notics as opium, chloral, hops, henbane, belladonna, 
Indian hemp, etc. ^^All these substances act on the 
nervous system. Their action shows three well de- 
fined stages ; (i.) There is a period of apparent exal- 
tation of function. (2.) This is followed by a period 
of diminution and perversion of functional activity. 
(3.) There is a time of loss of function in which there 
is profound coma and paralysis.'' [Dr. McKendrick, 
Professor of Medicine, Glasgow.] 

2. Tobacco is a vile compound. Vaqueline, the 
French chemist, says : ^^The ingredients of tobacco 
are : i. The acrid, volatile principle nicotine, (a 
poison) ; 2, albumen ; 3, acetic acid ; 4, soluble 
red matter ; 5, supermaiate of lime ; 6, chlorophyl ; 
7, nitrate of potash; 9, sal ammoniac; 10, water." 



lO PIPE AND QUID. 

A deadly compound of poisonous elements. Six 
pounds of tobacco leaves under chemical analysis 
give out eleven grains of **Oil of Tobacco.^' This is 
an acrid, empyreumatic oil, detected in the smoke, 
and a most virulent poison. Of this oil, the most ac- 
tive principle is nicotine, of which one drop placed on 
the tongue instantly killed a dog. The vapor de- 
stroyed the life of birds. 

3. Its symptoms are always dreadful and dead- 
ly. It produces thirst, giddiness, faintness, nausea, 
vomiting and purging. Nature abhors it, and by ev- 
ery possible means, seeks to be rid of it. To use 
it is a crime against nature. The skin becomes cold 
and clammy, the muscles relaxed, the pulse feeble^ 
and fainting follows. Persistent and long continued 
indulgence is often followed by total paralysis, almost 
invariably by partial paralysis. Convulsions follow, 
often terminating in death. 

^Tt is a nauseous and poisonous weed of an acrid 
taste and disagreeable odor, whose only properties 
ARE deleterious. It impairs digestion, poisons the 
blood, disorders the heart, and depresses the vital 
powers." [Enc. American.] 

Dr. Brodie found on experiment that two drops of 
the oil on the tongue of a cat produced death in a few 
minutes. 

Koempfer ranks it with the strongest vegetable pois- 
ons. 

Dr. Jolly — Fellow of the Royal Society — calls it 
*^the curse of the age.'^ He declares that smoking 
tobacco is one of the most common causes of general 
paralysis. Learned physicians have estimated that 
20,000 [what an army of suicides !] yearly die in this 
land from this poison. 

Illustration. A mother whose child had some 
humor of the face, was told to rub the oil from the 



TOBAgCO ESSAY. II 

filthy stem of an old pipe upon the child's face. (Ma- 
ny like prescriptions are the most arrant humbug and 
cruelty.) She did so. The child dropped insensible, 
and for years suffered in health, weakly and puny. 

Place a cigar in the arm-pit of a child and let it lie 
there for the night ; he will be dead in the morning. . 
Men who fill the rooms with tobacco smoke are slow- 
ly but surely sapping away the life of the children 
who are compelled to breathe it. It is suicide to the 
father and murder to the wife and children. Indians 
dip their arrows in the juice boiled down, and pierce 
their foes with a deadly wound, certain to kill or slow 
to heal. 

Again. — An infant of Mr. Benjamin Wilson, c*f 
Prince George county, Maryland, swallowed some 
crumbs of tobacco which he had picked up from the 
floor. He was immediately taken ill and died two 
days afterward from the effects of the poison from 
the weed, physicians being unable to afford any relief 

4. It is usually adulterated with vile com- 
pounds. Cigarettes are soaked in opium to fasten 
the habit upon the young with chains of a lifelong 
bondage. Mice and vermin are found pressed to death 
in plug tobacco. Cigars are made by workmen suf- 
fering with syphilitic sores, and the disease thus 
transmitted to smokers. All kinds of devices for 
making the cigars and tobacco cheap, fragrant [!] 
and attractive, are in vogue. All kinds of stuffs are 
used to adulterate the materials. As if the deadly 
weed itself were not already murderous enough, oth- 
er poisons are infused into the decoction and sold as 
^^pure Havana filled. '' 

British laws have been invoked to suppress this 
business. What a pity the whole wretched traffic has 
not been prohibited long ago. Its dangers, costs and 



12 PIPE AND QUID. 

evil results are second only to liquor. The following 
is good authority on this point and worth careful 
reading : 

The Boston Transcript says : We have heard the tobacco 
user claim that the weed was food and drink to him, but never 
thorougly believed him until a British parliamentary report on 
adulteration set forth the following schedule : "Sugar, alum, lime, 
flour or meal, rhubarb leaves, salpetre, fuller's earth; starch, malt, 
cummin, chromate of lead, peat, moss, molasses, burdock leaves, 
lamp-black, gum, red dye, a black dye composed of vegetables, 
red licorice, scraps of newspapers, cinnamon stick, cabbage 
leaves and straw-brown paper," 

The Supervisor at Birmingham, observing that an article was 
being sold at a very cheap rate in packets, under the name of 
"Smoking Mixture," sent a sample to the Inland Revenue Labora- 
tory for examination, and it being found to contain a large pro- 
portion of vegetable matter resembling the broken up heads of 
camomile flowers, further inquiry led to the discovery of the 
manufactory. The process of manufacture consisted in exhaust- 
ing the bitter principle of camomile flower-heads with water, and 
then dyeing and sweetening them with a solution of logwood and 
licorice, which brought them, when dried, somewhat to the color 
of tobacco. The heads, when broken up, were then mixed with 
from twenty to thirty per centum of cut tobacco, according to the 
price at which the mixture was to be sold. The mixture was sup- 
plied to retailers in packets, labeled "The New Smoking Mixture, 
Analyzed and Approved;" and as agencies had already been estab- 
lished in several towns, an extensive trade would no doubt soon 
have arisen had the manufactory not been suppressed at an early 
stage of its existence. — Pall Mall Gazette. 

The medical authorities quoted above are among 
the first of their profession. The chemical nature of 
the weed cannot be denied. Its symptoms can be 
observed on everv side. 



TOBACCO ESSAY. I3 



CHAPTER II. 

TOBACCO INJURIOUS TO THE HEALTH. 

John Wesley, writing to a Methodist preacher in 
Ireland, says, '^Clean yourselves of lice. Cure your 
self and family of the itch. Use no tobacco." Worthy 
trio ! Properly associated. '^Use no tobaccco, un- 
less prescribed by a physician. It is an uncleanly and 
unwholesome self-indulgence ; and the more custom- 
ary it is the more resolutely should you break off 
from every degree of that evil custom. Use no snuff. 
I suppose no other nation in Europe is in such vile 
bondage to this silly, nasty, dirty custom as the 
Irish are. But let Christians be in this bondage no 
longer. Assert your liberty, and that all at once. 
Nothing will be done by degrees. But just now you 
may break loose, through Christ strengthening you." 
(Wesley's works. Vol. 6, p. 746.) 

Lice, itch and tobacco forbidden to Methodists ! 
Surely all our luxuries are going ! What a cross for a 
real Methodist ! 

Brother stand up now and plead for your three 
friends ! 

I. It attacks all the system and functions. Dr. 
Stephenson says that '^the salivary glands, whose ac- 
tion is intensely excited by smoking and chewing, are 
so exhausted that brandy, whiskey, or some other 



14 PIPE AND QUID. 

spirit is called for. We very seldom see a drunkard, 
or even a moderate drinker, who did not begin his vi- 
cious career by using tobacco. The use of the one 
soon creates a demand for the other." Dr. Rush says, 
this ^^thirst cannot be allayed by water, for no seda- 
tive, or even insipid liquor, will be relished after the 
mouth and throat have been exposed to the stimu- 
lants of the smoke, or the use of tobacco." 

Dr. Gibbons says : '^Tobacco impairs digestion, 
poisons the blood, depresses the vital powers, causes 
the limbs to tremble, and weakens and otherwise dis- 
orders the heart." 

A new and nameless disease of the heart induced 
in young men by cigarette smoking is called by phys- 
icians the ^ ^tobacco heart." 

Dr. Willard Parker says that the manufacturers and 
users of tobaccco ^ ^cannot recover soon, and in a 
healthy manner, from cases of injury or fever. They 
are more apt to die in epidemics, and more prone to 
apoplexy and paralysis." 

Dr. Hassock makes the use of tobacco one cause 
of the ' 'alarming frequency of apoplexy, palsy, epi- 
lepsy, and other diseases of the nervous system." 

From these high medical authorities we learn that 
it is a poison fearfully destructive of the nervous sys- 
tem, and also assaults the whole citadel of life. No 
person, age, sex or race is exempt from its deadly 
work. It is altogether injurious ; to all and alwa3^s. 

2. It does no good. 

It repairs no waste. It furnishes no food. It af- 
fords no strength. Hear the voice of science, again, 
on this point. A late article in the Journal of Sci- 
ence Review gives us the mischievous results as 
shown by many experiments, and sums up as follows : 

"Tobacco adds no potential strength to the human frame. Its 
work is destruction not construction. It cannot add one molecule 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 1 5 

to the plasm out of which our bodies are built up. On the contra- 
ry, it exerts upon it a most deleterious influence. It does not sup- 
ply, but it diminishes vital force. It has no food value. Stimu- 
lation means abstracted, not added force. It involves the narcotic 
paralysis of a part of the functions, the activity of which is es- 
sential to a healthy life. " 

And yet we are often met by the remark that '^to- 
bacco helps digestion, I don't eat as much as I did," 
etc. ; the very reverse of the facts and logic in the 
case. Tobacco prevents digestion, and of couse you 
do not therefore call for so much food ; but tobacco 
lurnishes no part of your needed supply of food. 
And while you do not eat as much as you did before 
learning to smoke or chew, the reason is apparent ; 
you are losing flesh, strength, vigor and virility. All 
the testimony of science and reason are against the 
practice. The same writer continues : 

"It will be said that tobacco soothes and cheers the weary toiler 
and solaces the overworked brain. All such expedients are fal- 
lacious. When a certain amount of brain-work or hand-work 
has been performed, nature needs time to rest and recuperate, and 
all such devices for escaping from this necessity will fail. It is a 
bad policy to set the house on fire to warm our hands by the blaze. 
Let ' it then be clearly understood that the temporary excitement 
produced by tobacco is gained by the destruction of the vital force 
and that it contains absolutely nothing that can be of use to the 
tissues of the body." 

The French government directed the Academy of 
Medicine to inquire into the influence tobacco has on 
the human system. Their report declared that insan- 
ity and paralysis were the results of excessive indul- 
gence. It acts, said these, the leading medical gen- 
tlemen of France, primarily upon the organic ner- 
vous system, depressing the faculties, and influencing 
the nutrition of the bod}^, the circulation of the blood, 
and the number of red corpuscles in the blood. At- 
tention was also called to the bad digestion, benumb- 



l6 PIPE AND QUID. 

ed intelligence, and clouded memory of those who 
use tobacco to excess. 

Many deluded victims of this vice, however, will 
offset their own perverted judgment against all the 
wisdom, experience and training of these savants of 
the profession. Their smoke has befogged their 
brains. 

3. Tobacco especially injurious to the young. A 
British physician, observing the large number of boys 
under 15 years of age on the street with cigars and 
pipes in their mouths, was prompted to examine the 
health of this class of smokers, and for that purpose 
selected 38 boys between the age of 9 and 15. In 22 
of these cases he found various disorders of the cir- 
culation and digestion, palpitation of the heart and 
more or less marked taste for strong drink. In 12 
there was frequent bleeding of nose, and 12 had 
slight ulceration of the mouth, caused by tobacco. 
The doctor treated them for their ailments but with 
little effect until the habit of smoking was discontin- 
ued, when health and strength were soon restored. 
The effect of tobacco in creating a taste for strong 
drinks is unquestionably very great. If the testimo- 
ny of some tobacco users and medical men is of any 
weight, one of the most radical methods of keeping 
the young from being led to intemperate drinking is 
to deny them tobacco. 

A committee of educators, including the professors 
in Ann Arbor, the Normal School, Alma College, the 
University of Michigan, and the Hillsdale College, 
gave evidence before the Michigan legislature on the 
effect of tobacco on the youth of that State. Super- 
intendent Howell, of the Lansing school, recently 
sent out circulars to the doctors on this subject, and 
has received two hundred replies. In every reply one 



TOBACCO ESSAY. I7 

or more cases are cited of boys being dwarfed, made 
insane, killed or rendered incapable of speech. The 
college professors testified that otherwise bright stu- 
dents were made dull and stupid by the use of the ci- 
garette, and that in many cases the power of hearing 
has been seriously affected. 

Let these warning notes be sounded in the ear of 
all. Parents have a duty here. And yet what re- 
proof can a parent give his child while he himself is 
indulging in such a sinful, wasteful, suicidal vice ! 

There is a vast amount of secret vice practiced by 
children, of which parents knov/ very little. When 
a pastor of the M. E. church in a certain thrifty town, 
I was informed of the existence cf a club of girls, 
from 16 to 20 years of age, called the ^ 'Jolly Five," 
who met to smoke cigarettes and visit with fast young 
m.en. And they were not the children of the alley 
and the spawn of the slums ! Not at all ! But mem- 
bers of the church and Sabbath school. Children of 
^^our leading citizens,'' who were foremost in every 
christian enterprise and the ^ 'cream of society.'' Of 
course the revelation of this state of things produced 
a sensation. And the simple fact stares us in the face 
that the evils and dangers of tobacco using are multi- 
plying on every hand. Many would investigate if 
they had any suspicions. I write these things to you 
as parents to arouse your suspicions. Look care- 
fully after your boys and girls. Put good books, facts, 
figures and incidents of warning and instruction un- 
der their eyes. 

Even the ^ 'Organ" of the tobacco trade admits that 
^'few things could be more pernicious for boys, grow- 
ing youths, and persons of unformed constitutions, 
than the use of tobacco in any of its forms." 
Cigarettes Killed Him. 

From the Evening Sun, N. Y. — "On Sunday afternoon, Aug. 



l8 PIPE AND QUID. 

7th, Russell Knevals was found lying dead in his bed by one of 
his companions. He was a young man of fine physique, and 
seemed to be a splendid example of a vigorous, healthy man. It 
wa-i no wonder that his friend thought he was only sleeping when 
he saw him in the bed, and it seemed impossible that this young 
man, who possessed such strong limbs and deep chest, and had 
revealed no signs of illness, could have died a natural death. 

"An autopsy this morning has revealed the cause of death- 
He v/as killed by cigarettes. When the surgeons reached the 
heart they found that the use of cigarettes had so greatly impair, 
ed its functions that it was a feeble organ, and on Sunday its flut- 
terings produced congestion of the brain, with attendant coma, 
causing his death. 

"Young Knevals was an excessive smoker of cigarettes. His 
daily allowance was sixty cigarettes, and he plainly was in the 
habit of inhaling the smoke. This habit he had begun years ago, 
when his organs were still weak and his bodily vigor not attained. 

"Thus daily he absorbed by inhalation deadly drugs, not only 
nicotine but opium, cascarilla, and the acid of the paper covering 
of the cigarette, and was daily drugging himself to death. 

"That the cigarette, as made and used in this country, is a 
deadly agent physicians have long known. * * * 

"At a recent examination of candidates for appointment as ca- 
dets at West Point every one of the youths was rejected by the 
physician, who detected the effect of cigarette smoking upon the 
heart. The death of young Knevals ought to be a warning to 
those who have acquired this habit, but how many are there who 
will heed it V" 

Is not that a case of suicide ? What defense or 
excuse can he offer at the judgment bar of God ? 
What reply can you make — reader? Knowing that 
this vice is deadly, are you not guilty of self-murder 
by persisting in its use ? Why not ? And does not 
the above newspaper record bear out the teachings of 
science ? Are not thousands of young men — aye, and 
young women too — hurrying their guilty souls down to 
a dreadful death, a suicide's grave, and eternal ruin 
by this vile but fashionable folly ? Look about you 
and deny it who can ! See the sallow, pinched and 
colorless face, as death-like and wan as a spook ! How 



TOBACCO ESSAY. ig 

few clear, bright, rosy-red-cheeked boys do you see 
on the street ? Crowding our schools and colleges 
like smoked herrings packed in a box, and about as 
handsome and lively ! 
4. Even the ministers of the gospel are slaves 

TO IT. 

The Rev. John S — , pastor of a New England 
church, persisted in the tobacco habit until his ner- 
vous system gave way, delirium set in. Declared he 
'•must have it or die ^' After seven years of suffering 
he became an imbecile and died a fool 1 Well ! some 
might think he began the habit as a ^^fool,^' continued 
as a **fool," and ^'died as the fool dieth !'' And yet 
the world seems to be full of two classes ; mankind 
and fools, and mostly fools ! 

Doctor Woodward, superintendent of the insane at 
Worcester, agrees in the testimony of many experts 
that the tobacco poison is largely responsible for the 
insanity which wrecks so many lives, and lays such a 
heavy tax on the tax payers to support these sad and 
awful institutions. 

Miss Dix reports eight cases of tobacco insanity in 
one asylum ! Dr. Kirkbridge reports four, and Dr. 
Lizar five more ! What a dreadful report ! What 
blasted lives and blighted hopes by reason of a filthy, 
expensive and foolish habit, for which no man can 
offer any excuse or proffer a reasonable apology ! 

Dr. Jolly, of the French Academy, says : ''As the 
tobacco revenues increase, so have insanity, general 
and progressive paralysis, softening of the brain and 
spinal marrow, and cancerous diseases of the lip and 
tongue.'^ 

Professor Bouirson says : ''Smoking is the most 
common cause of cancer of the mouth." The writer 
knew a man who was compelled to go to the hospital 



20 PIPE AND QUID. 

at Albany, New York, and have his tongue cut out by 
reason of a cancer caused by his old pipe. 

Tobacco reckons the great and wise among its 

VICTIMS. 

Dr. Rush mentions the case of a man in Boston, 
who lost all his teeth by smoking. 

Like Germany we are becoming a nation of 
SPECTACLES, and victims to near sightedness, weak 
eyes and various affections, producing blindness on 
every side. Learned and skilled physicians tell us 
they can unfailingly trace the cause in many cases to 
smoking tobacco. 

Now, my friend, is it wise in you to say, ^^oh 
fudge !'' because some nasty little country Doctor, 
with a huge quid in his cheek, recommends you to 
use it *'for corns, '^ or '^toothe ache,'' or ^ ^heartburn V* 
And if you *^use it for medicine,'' what kind of a 
'^medicine" is it, let me ask you, which you must take 
two or three dozen times a day, and follow up for 
years, and get no better either but rather worse ? Come 
now, in all good conscience and honesty, are you not 
making this '^medicine talk" all for a sham excuse ? 

No physician of any standing or self respect dare 
deny the facts and authorities quoted by the writer. 
But because so many choose to chew the bitter weed, 
they also choose to eschew the terrible facts and con- 
sequences of it. 

The Medical Times, in i860, recorded 127 cases of 
lips eaten out by tobacco cancers. And it is our pain- 
ful duty to call the attention of our readers to the 
public fact and public calamity by which our great 
and good General and President, U. S. Grant, lost his 
life. A tobacco cancer, persistent and incurabie, in 
spite of all that medical skill could do, in spite of 
wealth and troops of friends, in spite of loving care 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 21 

and tender nursing — a cancer, caused by the cigar, 
cut off this great man's life many years before his al- 
lotted time. And this fact ought to be specially im- 
pressed upon the young, because for many years Gen- 
eral Grant filled a large place in the public mind, his 
life and wonderful war record made him almost the 
idol of the Union, and his example held a mighty 
sway over the nation. To my mind there is no doubt 
that his inveterate, persistent and habitual smoking 
led thousands of young men to take up this habit. 
And this example was the more injurious because of 
his moral rectitude in every other walk in life, be- 
cause of his personal modesty, and unfailing kindness. 
His many and great virtues largely mitigated the evil 
nature^ and influence of this popular habit, and threw 
a glamour over the whole filthy and suicidal business. 

It was therefore — perhaps — providential and fitting 
that he who had been such a public sinner in this re- 
spect should also be a public example of dreadful suf- 
fering and certain punishment. Hence, I say, let 
those who imitate the General only in this nasty vice, 
realize that they shall also reap the consequences. 
^^Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoev- 
er a man soweth that shall he also reap." This sick- 
ness and death of the great War General and Presi- 
dent ought to prove a lesson full of warning to all 
who sing the praises of the ^^pure Havanna.'' No 
man is so great and wise that he may not also become 
the victim of the most filthy, foolish and deadly hab- 
its. If this phase of this subject needed any further 
argument it could easily be brought forward. Let 
these additional facts be pondered. 

Dr. Bartine says : ^^It is scarcely possible in the 
case of an old smoker to heal a syphilitic sore or unite 
a broken bone.'' 



22 PIPE AND QUID. 

Dr. Fenn says : Mild cases of typhoid fever are 
often rendered fatal by the use of this poison. 

Tobacco so neutralizes the strength of many medi- 
cines that physicians are compelled to double the or- 
dinary doses. And the symptoms are so complicated 
thereby that it puts the patient in increased peril. 

Mr. C — , of Plymouth, N. H., was a smoker, chew- 
er and snuffer for thirty years. He became nearly 
deaf with ringing in both ears, he could read only with 
spectacles, and was apparentl}^ near death. He gave 
it up at 63 years age and was restored to health. 

Dr Cullen mentions several cases where this poison 
caused loss of memory, fatuity, and other symptoms 
of a senile state of the nervous system, before the 
usual period. I was personally acquainted with an old 
Presiding Elder in the church for many years, who 
smoked for a long period without any apparent injury. 
But it brought him down at last. In putting wood in 
his stove one morning, in as good health, apparently, 
as ever he fell to the floor, struck down with paralysis. 
He lived along several years, babbling forth broken, 
confused and helpless jargon, barely able to make him- 
self understood ; a helpless invalid, a broken down 
paralyitic, a burden to his family and himself, and so 
died. 

A Buffalo correspondent of one of our New York 
dailies reports the following : 

"A case in my own intimate acquaintance has this very week ap- 
palled a large circle of friends in this city. The victim was ex- 
actly my own years, and a companion from early childhood. For 
30 years, at least, he has been adaily smoker of the choicest cigars, 
but in all his other habits temperate and regular, and of excellent 
constitution — one who, of all men, would have laughed at the sug- 
gestion that tobacco was killing him. A week ago last Saturday 
night he was stricken with a progressive paralysis characteristic of 
nicotine, and on Sunday nignt he died." 



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23 



It will fetch you, brother, in the long run ! Count 
up the debit and credit. Strike a trial balance sheet 
and tell me what it will profit a man to chew a moun- 
tain of plug and die in the midst of his years. A ci- 
gar has been pithily described as, '^a nasty weed, with 
a little fire at one end and a big fool at the other !" 

Smoking worse than chewing. Smoking is less 
filthy to the user than chewing, but is more injurious 
to the health. Dr. Dixon, editor of The Scalpel, a 
leading medical journal, says, in article strongly con- 
demning the use of tobacco in every form : 

"Our remarks apply in much more forcible manner to smoking 
than to chewing, Some people are so silly as to suppose, because 
they do not spit while smoking, that no harm can ensue ; but they 
should remember that the oil of tobacco, which contains the 
deadly nicotine, is volatilized, and circulates with the smoke 
through the delicate lining membrane of the mouth at each whiff 
of the cigar, and is absorbed by the extensive continuation of this 
membrane that lines t>he nostrils, and acts upon the whole body. 
The smoke of tobacco is indeed much more rapid in its stupify- 
ing effect, as every smoker knows. It is usually called 'soothing' 
by its votaries, but this, of course, is only the first stage of stu- 
piiication ; it acts precisely as opium or other narcotics do." 

6. ^^tobacco in the form of snuff," 

says Dr. Rush, * 'seldom fails of impairing the voice by 
obstructing the air." At a council of physicians held 
in London, the question of ''snuff using" came up for 
discussion, but it engaged the attention of the coun- 
cil for only a few minutes, the discusssion being brok- 
en off by the unanimous adoption of a resolution declar- 
ing the use of snuff to be a "useless and pernicious 
habit." 

7. "BUT I CAN'T QUIT IT," YOU SAY ! 

You can do anything you ought to do. You can 
do what hundreds have done. Conquer the filthy de- 
mon. Banish the degrading habit. Set jotirself at 
it and seek grace and help from God and you can 



24 PIPE AND QUID. 

overcome it. Let the testimonies of the many 
thousands who have quit it forever — some of them 
advanced in years — assist you. Said James Parton, 
the historian, who was a slave to the practice for thir- 
ty years, and who heroically broke from his chains on 
the instant of his resolution to do so : I have less 
headache, I enjoy exercise more, and step out much 
more vigorously. My room is cleaner, I think I am 
better tempered, as well as more cheerful and satis- 
fied. I endure the inevitable ills of life with more 
fortitude, and look forward more hopefully to the 
coming years. It did not pay to smoke, but it decid- 
edly pa3^s to stop smoking.'^ 

John Quncy Adams, President and Statesman : ^^In 
my early youth I was addicted to the use of tobacco 
in two- of its mysteries — smoking and chewing. I was 
warned by a medical friend, (reader have you no such 
friend indeed?) of the pernicious operation of this 
habit upon the stomach and nerves, and the advice of 
the physician was fortified by the results of my own 
experience. More than thirty years have passed away 
since I deliberately renounced the use of tobacco in 
all its forms; and although the resolution was not 
carried into execution without a struggle of vitiated 
nature, I never yielded to its impulses, and in the 
space of three or four months of self denial, they lost 
their stimulating power, and I have never since felt it 
as a privation. I have often wished that every indi- 
vidual of the human race afflicted with this artificial 
appetite, could prevail upon him.self to try, but for 
three months the experiment which I have made, feel- 
ing sure that it would turn every acre of tobacco land 
into a wheat field, and add five years to the longevity 
to the average of human life.'' 

Now I want to ask every candid reader, Do not the 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 25 

foregoing facts and evidences comprise a powerful 
argument against this evil habit? Are not all the 
sound reasons against the indulgence of this loathsome 
practice? Can you find an excuse for it which is in 
the least a plausible pretext for a christian man or a 
gentleman? For it certainly is not christian like or 
gentlemanly. When General Morris returned from 
France he was asked by a nasty, smoking minister of 
the gospel, if gentlemen smoked in France. ^'Sir*' 
replied the Governor, ^ ^gentlemen smoke nowhere!" 
And certainly it is repugnant to our highest ideals of 
good manners, good breeding, and pure Christianity. 
None of us could for one moment associate this bar- 
barous, degrading vice with the pure sweet manliness 
of Jesus of Nazareth ! No ! Jesus Christ could 
never have been guilty of such a selfish and polluting 
practice. 

8. THE EXCUSES FOR THIS APPETITE ARE ALWAYS 
TRIVIAL. 

They are easily answered. The evil effects are so 
many, so evident, the benefits so utterly false and un- 
founded, that, like intoxicating liquors, the only safe 
and reasonable plan is total abstinance. 

It is dissagreeable to your friends, a nuisance to 
your family, a bad example to your children, a seri- 
ous damage to your home, health, holiness and hap- 
piness. Its most charitable friends and worshipful 
votaries admit that it is useless if not positively injur- 
ious, and there are thousands who regret that they 
ever acquired the appetite. I have never been able 
to find one, among many to whom I put the question, 
that did not regret having acquired the practice. 
But the only relief is the prompt and determined 
abandonment of tobacco in every form and for all 
time. 



26 PIPE AND QUID, 

9. THE APPETITE OFTEN BECOMES HEREDITARY. 

One of the most alarming facts brought out is the 
hereditary influence of this indulgence. The evil 
effects of the habit are sometimes slightly seen in the 
parents, but are manjfeoi in the children. Not only 
the appetite, but disease and physical weakness con- 
sequent upon it, are transmitted to the children. 
This fact, well authenticated, should awaken thought- 
ful consideration on the part of parents who are 
addicted to the habit. What a heritage to bequeath 
to your sweet, helpless, innocent babe ! What has 
he done that you should fill the delicate organism of 
his fair young life with the untimely seeds of weak- 
ness, decay and death? Do you seek to be repre- 
sented in the next generation by a pale, puny, little 
stripling, dwarfed and stunted in mind, body and soul 
by this accursed poison ? Do you feel honored in 
walking around among men leading by the hand a 
poor, little tottering imbecile, shakey on his legs, 
husky in his throat, yellow in the face, his eyes run- 
ning red with sores, and ail the symptoms of prema- 
ture decay stamped upon his wretched little exist- 
ence ? Of course many such are to be found in infancy 
with a natural inbred appetite for this deadly narcotic. 
And as soon at they are able to trot out into the 
streets and pick up the stubs or beg a ^^chaw-er ter- 
baccer,'^ they will of necessity begin the nasty soul 
and body destroying practice which will blast their 
whole career. Instead of growing up strong and rug- 
ged, rosy and hondsome, these 14-year-old victims of 
a popular vice, and follov/ers of an almost universal 
custom, will become saturated with the fumes and 
juice of this terrible drug, acquire a sodden dirty-yel- 
low hue, become dwarfed in intellect, lose the power 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 27 

of memory, run riot in the streets, grow up in a feeble 
shiftless state of loaferism and vagabondage, dull, 
stupid, ignorant; to be a nuisance to all about him, a 
charge on the country, and fill a premature grave. 
Any man with his eyes open can see just such wrecks 
of humanity all about him. And what a cruel bless- 
ing it is for you to father such an appetite with all 
these fearful consequences upon your child! Life thus 
handicapped from infancy is more a curse than a 
blessing. 

lO. IT DESTROYS VIRILITY. 

The Scalpel, the medical journal previously quoted, 
says: ^^So far are we from doubting its power over 
the moral and physical welfare of the race, that we 
have not a doubt that it has infinitely more to do with 
the physical imperfection and early death of the chil- 
dren of its votaries, than its great associate, drunk- 
enness itself. 

The deficiency of virile power in many instances of 
long continued smokers, is very marked. Every sur- 
geon of experience must have observed it. The local 
surgical and medical treatment most effective in these 
cases proves conclusively that it is to the debilitating 
and exhausting influence of tobacco that these sad 
consequences are due.'' What volcanic fires lie 
smoking under these facts? ^^The iniquity of the 
father is visited upon by the children of the third and 
fourth generation." And the terrible power of this 
poison is seen in the total destruction of the repro- 
ductive functions. Do you realize, my friend, that 
these are the cold, calm, deduction of medical science ! 
To poison yourself and with this drug is to slowly 
consume your manly powers, destroy virility or beget 
sickly children, in whom, perchance, will soon utterly 
perish all manly and human virtues. It does seem to 



28 PIPE AND QUID. 

me that all you need is to know these appalling facts, 
to bring you to total abstinance now and forever. I 
must give you the credit to believe that with these 
conclusions of reason and science before you, this 
filthy god will never again receive a burnt offering of 
incense at your hands ! 

Dr. Adam Clark is quoted as saying: *^If I were 
to offer a sacrifice to Satan, it v/ould be a dead hog 
stuffed with tobacco.'' 

Those who know much of the devil, must believe 
the sacrifice would be quite acceptable. 

A writer in Blackwood'' s Magazine estimates the 
whole amount of tobacco grown upon the face of the 
globe at four thousand milliojis of potmds, and a close 
estimate shows that the world's tobacco crop costs, 
directly, at least one thousand million dollars annually. 
To this must be added the loss of the land on which 
it is grown, and of the thousands of persons engaged 
in its cultivation, manufacture and sale. The wealth 
producing power of both land and m.en is lost, because 
the product of their toil does not add wealth to the coun- 
try, or increase the nations power of producing wealth. 
Besides this the effect of tobacco growing is to im- 
poverish the soil. Gen. John H. Cook, of Virginia, 
says, * ^Tobacco exhausts the land beyond all other 
crops. As a proof of this every homestead from the 
Atlantic border to the head of tidewater is a mourn- 
ful monument. It has been the besom of destruction 
which has swept over this fertile region." 

A WORD TO TOM FILTHYWEED UPON SOME PROBLEMS 
IN COMPOUND INTEREST FOR HIS HONEST THOUGHT*. FcW 

people realize the v/aste of tobacco money when con- 
sidered in the light of compound interest. Tom! sit 
dowm and carefully figure up the loss of a few cents 
per day through a number of years. Take the fol- 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 29 

lowing example of a man who consumes one dollar 
a week, or four dollars a month, or fifty dollars a 
year, at five per cent interest, compounded annually, 
and you will be amazed at the enormotcs results. 

Suppose, Tom, you begin at 20 years of age to use 
tobacco at the average rate of $50 a year. This is 
much more than many use, and much less than many 
use. Perhaps it is as near the average as we can 
estimate — for it is a common thing for men to spend 
two to five dollars a week in this costly indulgence. 

On this estimate for a basis, at thirty years of age, 
Tom, you have chewed or smoked $710.89. That 
would be a pretty nice little capital for any young mdin at 
thirty to have snugly invested at interest at five per cent, 
and this any young man like yourself, Tom, can easily 
do, and the saving is a blessing to yourself in decency, 
cleanliness and economy. 

-^t 35 you would have g 1,200 in the bank ; at 40 
$1,800, or during those five years, Tom Filthyweed, 
your indulgence has cost you $600 and your annual 
loss averages over one hundred dollars a year. The 
interest on j^our wasted money is now double the ex- 
pense of your annual cigar bill of $50. At 45 years 
of age your bank account would be $2,550, and 
the outgo of waste is now $180 per year, that is your 
interest account, $130, added to tobacco bill, $50, 
amounts to $180, which is a serious w^aste for a man 
in his prime. 

At 50 the bill rolls up to $3,600, the annual loss to $230. 

" 55 " *' 4,850, " " 300. 

•* 60 " '* 6,460, " " 375. 

" 65 ^' " 8,520, " " 475. 

" 70 " " 11,100, " *' 580. 

These are startling figures, Tom! 

You perhaps have never had your attention called 
to them, but here they are staring you out of this 



30 PIPE AND QUID. 

page. Look at them honestly, earnestly and seriously, 
and tell me, my boy, if you are ready to throw away 
a fortune of $10,000 in the next fifty years. Lay by a 
dollar a week and when you are old and worn out you 
will have a nice income; nearly $400 a year at 60; 
nearly $600 a year at 70; and how small the sacrifice, 
how slight the discomfort and how grand the results 
of this self denial! Notice, Tom, in the above table 
that your bill of wasteful indulgence amounts to a 
thousand dollars every three years after you are 40. 

And of course the waste is much greater when the 
basis of expense is enlarged. 

Now, what young man cannot practice a little self 
denial and economy on his luxuries and needless ex- 
penditures, and at 40 years of age have $2000 in life 
insurance, or savings bank, or real estate, or mort- 
gages, amply provided for the future contingencies of 
sickness, misfortune or old age? 

And how foolish, not to say wicked, are the complaints 
you make, Tom, at ^'hard times ^^^ ^^poor luck," ^^low 
salary,'^ etc., v/hen you are selfishly enslaved to a filthy 
hahit which is squandering an independent fortune! 
What consolation and sympathy can you expect of an 
economical people, clean and decent, prosperous and 
happy without this habit? If you come in your old 
age to poverty, rags and wreck; a broken down and 
nasty old pauper in the poor house, teeth gone, nerves 
shaking with tobacco palsy, haggard and forlorn, 
without a dollar or a friend in the world, pray tell me, 
Tom Filthyweed, whose fault is it? 

CHAPTER IV. 

A NUISANCE TO THE HOME. 

^'If I had a yellow dog, a bandy-legged cur, that 
chewed tobacco, Pd shoot him! Wouldn't you?" 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 3I 

''1 would not have a dog abusing the coal hod and 
the wood box the way you do — wouldn't have him 
about the house a week!" ^'I would not clean up 
after your dog if he defiled the kitchen floor and 
stunk up the house as you do with your old pipe and 
quid, rd sell him, or faihng that, give him away, or 
if I could not get anybody to take the nasty cur as a gift, 
rd give a small boy two bits to tie a stone to his neck 
and throw him into the mill pond. Wouldn't you? 
And pray tell me, you nasty Methodist, you dirty 
Christian, what better is your tobacco filth as a nuis- 
ance than a dog of like nuisance Vv^ould be? You 
don't relish the idea of being called a dog or likened to a 
beast, and yet when you go to church and spit tobacco 
juice upon the floor and throw your quid under the seat 
you do that no dog ever did. The very i7isti7icts of a 
beast teach him the dangerous nature of this poison. 
What's the matter with your * ^instincts," sir? And 
when you go out of church to-night just take your 
cud along home with you. There is not a low-down, 
mangy cur in town will pick up the quid or stub you 
left behind you. It looks to some people as though 
you are much more filthy and degraded than any beast 
you ride or drive. You call yourself a gentleman, 
and yet not a dog in town cultivates the most promi- 
nent, expensive and offensive of your gentlemanly 
graces, the cultivated and acquired power to masti- 
cate tobacco. What a noble and intellectual accom- 
plishment! What profound scholarship and masterly 
powers it betokens! Thus to seccure the pre-emi- 
nence over all the brute and animal creation in this 
nasty, stupifying self-abuse. For old men and little 
boys are the only bipeds or quadrupeds you ever see 
poking around the gutters after quids and stubs. All 
the higher animal creation utterly reject them. I don't 



32 PIPE AND QUID. 

know but I ought partially to make one or two excep- 
tions. 

There is one biped, one quadruped and one hexapod tJiat 
eats tobacco. 

The hexapod is a long green worm that feeds upon 
\h^ green herb as it grows in the field, but never known 
to chew plug or smoke a pipe. The farmers who raise 
tobacco are laboriously employed in killing these 
worms, which would otherwise soon make the market 
very ^ 'short. ^^ The worm kills the tobacco, the far- 
mer kills the worm and the tobacco kills the farmer. 
Its a killing business all around. A lady evangelist 
in Vermont used to say, ^^The Devil invented tobacco 
because the Bible says the mustard seed is the small- 
est of all seeds, and the tobacco seed is smaller 
than the mustard; hence the Devil, (not the Lord,) 
created tobacco. I won't contend her logic. 

The one qtcadruped which chews tobacco is a filthy 
Australian goat, I am told, the only species that does. 
I cannot vouch for this, but I fancy the Bible hints 
at something of this kind when it says the day of 
judgment shall divide the sheep from the goats. And 
as sheep do not chew tobacco, and the only species 
of brute that does is the goat, I must infer there will 
be no tobacco in heaven to chew. The ^^goats" will 
have to go to hell to find their favorite cud. Perhaps 
this explains why so many sinners call their own 
boys ^^kids." And by the way, my nasty Christian 
brother! my foul-mouthed Methodist! when you ask 
me if a man cannot be a Christian and go to heaven 
and chew tobacco too, I just w^ant to ask you if you 
think you will be permitted to take a cargo of spit- 
toons along and slide them out from under the seat 
as you do in your churches here? Or do you think 
you will go around the New Jerusalem spattering 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 33 

your filthy juices upon the golden streets? Or do you 
think your patient little wife will be an eternal slave 
to your nastiness, following you all around heaven 
v/ith a mop and water to clean after you as she does 
here? No! No! my friend. I think the good Lord 
will abate that nuisance there wdiich is such a nuisance 
here, and give that wife of yours an eternal rest from 
all that kind of a thing. I don't think heaven w^ould 
be much of an attraction to many of us if v/e had to 
take the trip in a smoking car wuth the kind of a 
crowd you like. 

No, brotlier! The Good Shepherd will separate 
the '^sheep^' from the ^ 'goats/' and the * 'sheep'' do 
not chew that cud. 

The one ''biped^^ that chews tobacco is called ''man," 
though I hardly feel willing to call^such a filth}^ slave 
a "man." God made man for a better purpose than to 
follow disgusting and wicked vices which the whole 
animal creation abhor and reject. And I feel like 
begging the pardon of my brute neighbors for calling 
him a biped. For a monkey is a biped, and he will 
not touch it. He is not as big a fool as he looks — 
not so foolish as some other bipeds. The one tobacco- 
eating biped is not a stork. To be sure the stork 
wades in the swamps and feeds on frogs, lizards, 
snakes and such, but these are dainties compared to 
tobacco — fresh, sweet, healthful food compared to 
pipe and quid and stub. Ah! ho! here comes the to- 
bacco-eating dude. Two whiffs of his breath will 
stench the whole room. You may nose him before 
he takes his seat. Of this he appears entirely uncon- 
scious; he will give you the full force of his lungs. 
He desires to speak with you alone; hold your breath. 
Say your say shortly — anything to be rid of him and 
his fumes, narcotic stench and yellow droolings down 
his chin. 



34 PIPE AND QUID. 

And when he opes his mouth to utter pleasing 
speech you behold a cavern yawning wide, with rag- 
ged stunips all oozing out with slime, and from his 
foggy throat a husk}^ sound proceeds. If it were not 
so common it would be an insult to approach a man 
with such manner of mouth and voice. Your eyes 
and ears and nose all take offense at the uncanny and 
loathsome affront to decency. ^^I have been followed,'' 
writes a physician, ' 'around a large office table, back- 
ing continually to escape the nuisance, till I had made 
a revolution or two before my motion was perceived." 
In this connection the follov/ing story will serve to 
point a moral and adorn the tale: 

•'Dominie H. was one of the old-time circuit riders, whose 
rough exterior and somewhat non-society ways often obscured his 
real goodness of heart. One day he was caught in a shower in 
Illinois, and going to a rude cabin near by, he knocked at the 
door. A sharp-loojcing old dame answered his summons. He 
asked for shelter. 'I don't know you,' she replied, suspiciously. 
'Remember the Scriptures, ' said the dominie, 'be not forgetful to 
entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels 
unawares.' *You needn't say that,' quickly returned the other, 'no 
angel would come down here with a big quid of tobacco in his 
mouth.' She shut the door in his face, leaving the good man to 
the mercy of the rain and his own reflections." 

CHAPTER V. 

A HINDRANCE TO HOLINESS. 

Tobacco in all forms becomes a question of trouble 
to the conscience to every true and devout christian. 
Of course there is no specific reference to it b}^ name 
in the old or new Testaments. It was altogether un- 
known to the ancient and civilized nations. It has 
been used by savages from the earliest times. It is 
used by savages to-day. The men who use it are 
savages, or very near akin to the nasty, smoky, wig- 
wam people. So it is very hard to look upon a man 



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35 



as a consistent follower of Christ while he indulges in 
this filthy idolatry. Jesus, whom the christians wor- 
ship, is far removed from all that is filthy, poisonous, 
selfish and disgusting to other people. And when 
Paul says ^^Dearly beloved! let us cleanse ourselves 
of allfilthiness of the flesh and spirit'^ — (2 Cor., 7-1.) 
We cannot but feel that the Lord and St. Paul would, 
without doubt, include this filthy practice as the worst 
cf ^ 'all filthifies s.^^ 

And when the Holy Word teaches us that ^^Our bod- 
ies are the temple of the Holy Ghost,'' surely to pol- 
lute these temples is an insult to the cleansing, sanc- 
tifying. Holy Spirit. ^'If any man defile the temple 
of God, him shall God destroy,'' is the solemn warn- 
ing of the word of God. What possible habit could 
be more filthy or defiling? Who will deny this? And 
how any man can compose his conscience with such 
scripture thundered in his ears is more than I can under- 
stand. It can only be explained on the ground of the 
fact that tobacco has a peculiarly sticpifying power over 
the conscience. This I consider its greatest damage to 
the church of Christ. To sum up: 

1. It benumbs all instincts of courtesy and decency. 

2. It destroys one's regard for the nerves and tastes of others. 

3. It deadens the convictions of conscience and duty. 

4. It throws a torpor over the soul's aspiration for God. 

5. It quiets the calls of the spirit to holiness of heart and life. 

The following by Rev. J. M. Buckley, editor of the 
Christia7i Advocate, so fully meets my views at this 
point that I give the quotation entire: 

Q. 279. a. Is the use of tobacco consistent with true Chris- 
tianity ? 

b. Can a man experience the blessings of holiness of heart 
until he has given up the habit of using tobacco, or retain the 
blessing if he resumes the habit? 

A. a. Many most excellent men have used tobacco; many 
who were greatly blessed of God, in their own experience and in 



36 PIPE AND QUID. 

the conversion of souls; many who furnished the best evidence of 
piety, and died in holy triumph. If they used it believing it to 
be wrong, their experience must have been very unfavorably af- 
fected by it. If they believed it to be right, they must have failed 
to study the subject in all its relations. It is not a proof that a 
man is not a Christian because he thinks it right to use tobacco. 
If it is, there are no Christians; for where can the man be found 
whose judgment is not in error on one or more points? 

h. No man can experience the blessing of holiness of heart 
v.^ho has not an intense desire to know the truth; an intense desire 
to be in condition to do the greatest good to all; an entire willing- 
ness to practice every form of self-denial, and a perfect consecra- 
tion of every pov/er to the service of God. In the present age, 
with all the light thrown on the use of tobacco, and with the cer- 
tainty that its use will diminish a man's influence, it is improbable, 
if not impossible, that a man can be in a state to receive the 
blessing of entire sanctification and use tobacco. We have known 
a woman who was a confirmed pipe-smoker to ask the privilege of 
addressing a preacher's meeting on entire sanctification. At the 
close we moved the appointment of a committee of three to con- 
sider the compatibility of pipe-smoking with entire sanctification. 
The venerable woman said "that it had given her a great deal of 
trouble, she had tried to quit, and had left it to the Lord." Als.o, 
we have been exhorted on this subject by a minister in private 
conversation, whose articulation was rendered indistinct; whose 
breath was polluted, and whose lips were stained by 
tobacco. Though not uttered, the words "Physician, heal 
thyself !" came to our lips. Upon full view of the subject, we 
must think that the presumiJtions are against the genuine- 
ness of the expei^ence of the person who professes entire sanctifi- 
cation and uses tobacco. 

Q. 280. What do you think of the appointment of a man as 
presiding elder who uses tobacco? If the men who now come into 
our conferences must abstain from the use of tobacco, is it just 
the right thing to have presiding elders who will tempt and tan- 
talize by the use of the weed those who dare not use it? The 
question is not whether the new rule is a wise one, but whether men 
who use tobacco should be made presiding elders — is it fair? 

A. Is it a sin to use tobacco? If so presiding elders ought not 
to do it. Is it an indiscretion disqualifying a man for the minis- 
try? Presiding elders ought not to do it. There is no rule against 
its use by bishops, or presiding elders, or elders or laymen. But 
candidates must be asked the question about it. Should the eccle- 
siastical superior do what the candidate should not? Can man 
sin himself into a state of justification? But must a man be er- 
fect in all things to be a presiding elder? Suppose a man admir- 
ably adapted for the office in all things, but the fact that he is a 
•victim of tobacco, should that disqualify him? He who would 
'say yes, would rule out three fourths of all the presiding elders 
the church has every had, and several of its most efficient bish- 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 37 

ops. The editor of the Christian Advocate voted against the new 
question because he saw the inconsistency of allowing bishops, 
presiding elders and elders, and local preachers, stewards, trust- 
ees, and class-leaders and private members to do a thing, and for- 
bidding the candidates the privilege; and saw that a bishop, per- 
haps, who used the weed might have to ask a question, and a 
presiding elder who used it might have to warn candidates not to 
do so; and because of the incongruity of closing a solemn series 
of the most searching and spiritual questions with one certain to pr- 
duce more or less levity; and because of the temptation to insin- 
cerity which such a question occasions. It is so common to 
charge a man who differs from another on a question of this kind 
with using the article, that we must give our creed and practice 
on the subject: i. Tobacco used for nine years did us more phys- 
ical and mental harm than any other error in diet into which we 
ever fell. 2. We used it till we had been in the ministry three 
months, when we were asked with what propriety we could urge 
men to deny themselves the gratilication of their lusts when 
yielding to our appetite for tobacco; and how we could pretend 
that the Holy Spirit could give strength to resist every tempta- 
tion when we acknowledged that we could not stop the use of to- 
bacco. We found that boys and young men were quoting our 
example to their parents in justification of smoking and chewing, 
and that men who used ale and wine asked us if we we did not 
smoke and chew for the same reason that they used these drinks, 
because of the pleasure derived. Convinced of the impropriety 
and undesirableness, and (for us) the sinfulness of the practice, 
we quit it, and for twenty-three years have not touched it, and have 
induced many to give up the practice. Yet, regarding the new 
question as open to the objection suggested, we could not consci- 
entiously vote for it, and see the inconsistency mentioned in the 
above inquiry. 

Question 2yS. Is a Christian man, who believes the use of to- 
bacco to be sinful, justified in remaining as an employee in a gro- 
cery house where tobacco is held for sale? 

Answer, All that an intelligent Christian man can rationally 
believe is that it is sinful for him to use tobacco who believes it to 
be sinful. The use of tobacco is not essentially sinful. If a man 
believes that tobacco injures his health, weakens his moral tone, 
is an unjustifiable expenditure of money, diminishes his influence 
for good, to him it is sinful. And the same would be true of tea 
and coffee. These things come under the principles laid down by 
St. Paul in Rom. xiv, 5, 23. Articles of merchandise can be sold 
to persons of intelligence, when there is no reason to presume a 
criminal intent, on the responsibility of the purchaser. Many 
things are sold as groceries which, with our views, it would be 
sinful for us to use. But we are not to judge those who do use 
them. Nor are we to enforce our notions upon customers. If 
the use of tobacco were like that of rum, certain to be attended 
in many cases, and liable to be attended in any case, by the great- 
est physical, mental, moral and social evils, involving violation of 
God's laws and the destruction of a hope of salvation, besides the 



38 PIPE Al^D QUID. 

infliction of irreparable calamities upon the innocent, its sale, ex- 
cept under restrictions, as by apothecaries and chemists, would 
be removed from this category, and come under the condemnation 
of "partaking of other men's sins." In answer to the question, 
then, we say that it is not improper for a Christian man, who 
thinks it sinful for him to use tobacco to remain as an employee 
m a grocery store, or to be proprietor of a grocery store in which 
tobacco is held for sale, unless he esteems it to be sinful so to remain; 
or, after the best thought and prayer he can give, he doubts 
whether it be right remain in such grocery store. In that case he 
could not conscientiously do so. But we have no doubt that St. 
Paul never contemplated such a refinement of conscience. 

CHAPTER VI. 

TESTIMONIES FROM ITS VICTIMS. 

In the following chapter I simply give the plain ac- 
count of individual experiences, under this fearful 
bondage. Hundreds of pages might be filled with 
similar narratives. These testimonies without giving 
the names of some which we have no right to do, are 
truthful, correct and actual events. There is no need 
of drawing upon the immagination or seeking the 
realms of fiction for dreadful pictures of the sad end- 
ings of wretched lives under the bondage of this vice. 
The simple stor}^ of these ^ ^Witnesses'' from actual 
experience can be duplicated by the reader in ha!f the 
men he meets on the street. Not one of them will 
deny the facts and feelings, symptoms and sufferings 
here set forth. 

I trust and pray their testimony may be of value 
and warning, as well as encouragement to be rid of 
this cruel tyrant. These testimonies come from every 
range of life. Scholars, Journalists, Poets, Authors, 
Generals, Physicians, Ministers and Statesmen. 
Their opinions are of value and weight in the world 
of intellect. Hence in this chapter, I desire to call 
attention to a valuable contribution to this topic which 
the reader who desires further light would do well to 
secure. It is entitled: 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 39 

THINKING, DRINKING AND SMOKING. 

STUDY AND STIMUIiANTS: OR The Use op Intoxicants and Nar- 
cotics IN RtJLATiON TO Intei^lectual. Life. As illustrated by 
personal communications on the subject from men of letters and 
of science. Edited by A. Arthur Reade, 12mo, pp. 201. Philadel- 
phia, J. B. Lippincott & Co. Manchester, x\bel, Hey wood & Son. 

The editor of this little volume has made a contribution both 
interesting and valuable to the study of effects of stimulants upon 
mental activity. He has taken pains to collect personal opinions 
and experiences from men distinguished in literature and science, 
and has thereby arrived at conclusions which ought to be service- 
able to thinkers. These conclusions are as follows: (i) That 
alcohol and tobacco are of no value to a healthy student. (2) 
That the most vigorous thinkers and hardest workers abstain from 
both stimulants. (3) That those who have tried both modera- 
tion and total abstinence find the latter the more healthf-^l prac- 
tice. (4) That almost every brain-worker would be the better 
for abstinence. (5) That the most abstruce calculations may be 
made and the most laborious mental work performed without arti- 
ficial stimulus. (6) That all work done under the influence of 
alcohol is unhealthy work. (7) That the only pure brain stimu- 
lants are external ones — fresh air, cold water, walking, riding and 
other out-door exercises. 

Not one of the eminent men whose letters Mr. Reade prints has 
resorted to alcohol for inspiration as stimulus to thought. 

THE GREATEST ENGLISHMAN. 

Mr. Gladstone has always abstained from the use of very strong 
and fiery stimulants, and smoking he detests. 

A MODERN PHILOSOPHER. 

It is worth noting, that when Littre, the French philosopher, 
felt the strain upon his system produced by continuous thought, 
he repaired his natural forces with doses of fruit, jelly or jam, 
pots of which he kept conveniently at hand in his study. The 
late Professor Charles Darwin's theory hardly accorded with his 
practice in the matter of alcohol. "I drink a glass of wine daily, " 
he wrote in February of last year, when he was seventy-three years 
old, "and believe I should be better v/ithout any, though all doc- 
tors urge me to drink wine, as I suffer much from giddiness. I 
have taken snuff all my hie, and regret that I ever acquired the 
habit, v/hich I have often tried to leave off, and have succeeded 
for a time." 

A HARVARD PROFESSOR. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes holds much the same opinions. He 
prefers an entirely undisturbed and unclouded brain for mental 
work, unstimulated by anything stronger than tea or coffee, unaf- 
fected by tobacco or other drugs. "His faculties are the best 
under his control in the forenoon, between breakfast and lunch. 
He does not habitually use any drink stronger than water. He 
has no peremptory rule, having no temptation to indulgence, but 



40 PIPE AND QUID. 

approaching near to abstinence as he grows older. He does not 
believe that any stimulus is of advantage to a healthy student. 

AN ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER. 

John Stuart Mill never used tobacco; Dr. Bain finds abstinence 
from alcohol and tea essential to intellectual effort; they induce a 
false excitement not compatible with severe application to prob- 
lems of difficulty. 

THE BRITISH SCIENTIST. 

While Professor Tyndall does not think that any general rule 
can be laid down, he is of the opinion that that man is happiest 
who is so organized as to be able to dispense v^ith the use of alco- 
hol and tobacco. Some powerful thinkers, he says, are very con- 
siderable smokers, while other pov/erful thinkers would have been 
damaged, if not ruined by the practice; and a similar remark 
applies to alcohol. 

THE GREAT RUSSIAN NOVELIST. 

M . Tourgneneff uses neither tobacco nor alcohol, and his ob- 
servations on other people have led him to the conclusion that 
tobacco is generally a bad thing, and that alcohol taken in very 
small quantities can produce a good effect in some cases of con- 
stitutional debility. As for Mr. Ruskin, he thinks that tobacco is 
a very bad thing; he abhors, indeed, the practice of smoking, his 
dislike of it being based mainly upon his belief that a cigar or 
pipe v/ill very often make a man content to be idle for any length 
of time who would not otherwise be so. 

THE POPULAR ENGLISH NOVELIST. 

Mr. Chas. Reade expresses decided opinions in the matter of 
tobacco. "I tried to smoke five or six times, but it always made 
me heavy and rather sick; therefore, as it is not a necessary of 
life, and costs money, and makes me sick, I spurned it from me. 
I have never felt the want of it. I have seen many people the 
worse for it. I have seen many people apparently none the worse 
for it. I never saw any person perceptibly the better for it. 

AN AMERICAN NOVELIST. 

Mr. W. D. Howells, never uses tobacco, except in a rare self- 
defensive cigarette when a great many other people are smoking, 
and he commonly drinks water at dinner. When he takes wine 
he thinks it v/eakens his work, and his working force the next day. 

M. TAINE, THE FRENCH CRITIC WRITES. 

All that I can say is that I have never made use of alcohol in any 
form as an essential stimulant. Coffee suits me much better. 
Alcohol, so far as I can- judge, is good only as a physical stimu- 
lant after great physical fatigue, and even then it should be taken 
in very small quantities. As for tobacco, I have the bad habit of 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 4I 

smoking cigarettes, and find them useful between two ideas— when 
I have the first, but have not arrived at the second; but I do not 
regard them as a necessity. It is probable that there is a little di- 
version produced at the same time, a little excitement and exhil- 
eration. But every custom of this kind becomes tyrannical, and 
the observations which accompany your letters are very judicious. 
THE UNION WAR GENERAL. 

General Grant's testimony in regard to tobacco has the merit of 
coming from one whose knowledge of the subject is thorough. 
He has found its efficacy great as a narcotic. He once told Dr. 
Beard that if disturbed during the night or worried about any- 
thing so that he could not sleep he could induce sleep by getting 
up and smoking a short time. Why he smoked in the day time 
the General did not say. 

(The General's cancer was a fearful price to pay 
for the fleeting pleasures of narcotic dreams. See 
Chapter II for more on this topic. B. S. T.) 

A MODERN ASTRONOMER. 

The Abbe Moigno, the French astronomer, con- 
tributes a letter entertaing in more ways than one: 

I can hardly offer myself as an example, because my constitu- 
tion is rather too exceptional, but my experience may have some 
degree of usefulness. I have already published 150 volumes, 
small and great. I scarcely ever leave my writing table. I never 
take a walk, nor even recreation, after meals; and yet have not felt 
any headache, constipation, or any derangement in the urinary or- 
gans. I have never had occasion to have recourse to stimulants, 
coffee, alcohol, tobacco, etc., in order to work, or to obtain clear- 
ness of mind. On the contrary, stimulants give rise in my case to 
abnormal vibrations in the brain, which are adverse to its quick 
and regular working. 

Several times in my life I fell into the habit of taking snuff. It 
is a fatal habit, dirty to begin with, since it puts a cautery to the 
nose, filth in the pocket, is extremely unwholsome; for he who 
takes snuff finds his nose stopped up, every morning, his breath- 
ing difficult, his voice harsh and snuffling, because the action of 
tobacco consists in drawing the humors to the brain; fatal at last, 
because the use of snuff weakens and destroys, by degrees, the 
memory. This last effect is fully proved by my own professional 
experiences, and that of many others. 

I learned twelve foreign languages by the method I published 
in my "Latin For All"; that is to say, I draw up the catalogue of 
1,500 or 1,800 radical or primitive simple words, and engraved 
them upon my mind by means of mnemonic formulas. In that 
way I had learned aboat 41,500 words, whose meaning is gener- 
ally, or most frequently, without connection with the word itself, 
and from 10,000 to 12,000 historical facts, with their precise date. 
All this existed simultaneously in my mind, always at my dispos- 



42 PIPE AND QUID. 

al when I wanted the meaning of a word or the date of an event. 
If any one asked me who was the twenty-lifth king of England, 
for instance, I saw in my brain that it was Edward, surnamed 
Plantagenet, who ascended the throne in 1154. With respect to 
philology or chronology, I was the most extraordinary man of my 
time, and Arago jokingly threatened to have me burnt like a 
wizard. But I had again fallen into the practice of snufif-taking 
during a stay of some weeks in Munich, where I spent my even- 
ings in a smoking-room with the learned Bavarians, each of whom 
ate four or five meals a day, and drank two or three jugs of beer. 
The most illustrious of these learned men, Steinhein, boasted of 
smoking 6,000 cigars a year. I attained to smoking three or four 
cigars a day. While drawing up my treatise on the Calculus of 
Variations, the most difficult of my mathematical treatises, I 
unconsciously empted my snuff-box, which contained twenty-five 
grammes (nearly an ounce) of snuff; and one day I was painfully 
surprised to find that I was obliged to have recourse to my dic- 
tionary for the meaning of foreign words. I found that the dates 
of the numerous facts I had learnt by heart had fallen from my 
mind. Such a thing has rarely or seldom happened before. Dis- 
tressed at this sorrowful decay of my memory I made a heroic 
resolution which nothing has disturbed since. On the ist of 
August, 1863, I smoked three cigars and used twenty-five cen- 
times (2^d.) worth of snuff; from the following day to June, 1882 
I have neither taken a pinch of snuff nor smoked a single ciga- 
rette. 

It was for me a complete resurrection, not only of memory but 
of general health and well-being. It was only necessary for me 
to do what I did eighteen years later — to lessen nearly one-half 
the quantity of food which I took every day, to eat less meat and 
more vegetables, to obtain such incomparable health, of which it 
is hardly possible to form any idea, unlimited capacity of labor, 
perfect digestion, absence of wrinkles, pimples; and I beg lea¥€ to 
affirm that those who tread in my footsteps will be as sound as I 
am. Add to this the habit, irrevocably established, of never say- 
ing I sliall do, nor I am doing, but I liave do7ie, and you have the 
secret of the enormous amount of w^ork I have been able to ac- 
complish, and am accomplishing every day, in spite of my eighty 
years. No one will dispute me the honor of being the greatest 
hard-working man of my century. 

I ought, finally, to add that I find it well for me to take at 
breakfast a small half-cup of coffee without milk, to which, when 
only two or three teaspoonfuls remain at the bottom of the cup, I 
add a small spoonful of brandy or other alcoholic liquor. That 
is my whole allowance of stimulants. How happy would those 
be who should adopt my regime. They would be able, without 
harm, to sit at their desk immediately after breakfast and to stay 
there till dinner-time. No sooner would they be in bed, at about 
9 o'clock, but they would be softly asleep a tew minutes later, and 
could rise at 5 in the morning, full of strength, after a ncurishing 
sleep of eight hours. 



TOBACCO ESSAY. 43 

CONCLUSION. 

Mr. Reade sets forth in a concluding essay many wise and 
agreeable reflections on the matter which he has so judiciously 
edited. He thinks it unsafe to make one man's experience an- 
other man's guide; but his readers will assuredly lay down his 
pleasant volume with the conviction that while stimulants may 
soothe and sustain the physical system they have little to say to 
profound thought or high inspiration. 

ANOTHER TOBACCO CURE. 

One more cure may be noted in the way of encouragement — 
that of a man who was enslaved from ten to twenty-two.-- Ex- 
cepting at meal times and when asleep, tobacco was always in 
his mouth. He realized that he was killing himself. Thirst, 
emaciation, lung and brain difficulties, were the fruits of tobacco 
intoxication. "On June 7 I commenced to live without the vile 
weed. On that day I actually suffered pain, was compelled to 
moisten my throat with water every half hour, else a burning 
thirst would make me miserable. I kept my resolution and the 
next day felt decidedly better; thirst lessened, food tasted better, 
and hopes of the future made me cheerful and happy. Each day 
found me gradually improving, and now months have passed. I 
have gained several pounds in weight, my respiration has im- 
proved, my complexion is better, my strength augmented, and 
my condition has elicited encouraging remarks from my friends." 

CHAPTER VIL 

"Come ye out from amon^ them, and be ye separate and touch not 
the unclean thing, and 1 will be a father to you— saith the Lord 
Almighty." 

PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS. 

I have thus set forth as tersely as possible my im- 
peachment of Tobacco as the mental, physical and 
spiritual tyrant and enemy of man. 

In this closing chapter I present a few thoughts for 
the candid reflection of ministers of the gospel, who 
are slaves of the vice. 

1. How can you set such an example to young 
men who look up to you — the embassador of Christ, 
as a pattern of Christly virtues, as a teacher of purity 
and Bible holiness ? 

2. How can you accept the hard earned wages of 
poor and humble laborers toward your support and 
spend a small fortune ( as I have shown in Chapter 



44 TOBACCO ESSAY. 

Ill) received from their scanty '^offerings to the Lord'' 
in such a soul-and-body-destroying habits ? 

3. What answer will 3^ou have to make before the 
coming judgment bar of God, as ^^a Steward accused 
of wasting his Lord's substance ?" 

5. What conscientious reason can you render to 
the church in your old age, when you come to ^'the 
fifth collection," perchance in poverty and deep 
necessity, that you have chewed or smoked up a com- 
fortable sustenance? What argument will justify 
your claim for an allowance from ^^the fund for worn 
out and superannuate preachers?" 

6. Why may not your mental and physical powers 
have been well preserved for years of holy usefulness 
if you had wholly abstained from the filthy idol ? Is 
it right for your brethren to be taxed on their savings 
and to take from their share of the fund to contribute 
to your imbecile support in an old age of filthy help- 
lessness ? 

These are heart-searching questions, perhaps, but 
my tobacco-preacher and brother, you will have to 

answer them! May God help ycu to answer them 
according to the teachings and practicings of our holy 
gospel and our blessed Redeemer! 

7. But you, brother, nor an}^ other man, has any 
occasion to be burdened with the cravings of such an 
evil and filthy habit. The grace of the Lord Jesus 
Christ is truly and fully offered to remove root and 
branch, all traces of this craving. 

Testimonies to this fact abound on every side, and 
I close this little monograph with a few well known 
witnesses. 

A WOMAN HAS A WORD. 
THE PRESIDING-ELDER. BY A MINISTER'S WIFE. 

Broad Christian scholarship; consecration to the church of his 



PIPE AND QUID. 45 

Master; "an ensample to the flock" of preachers on his district, 
saying to them: "Follow me, as I follow Christ;" pure in heart 
and moiitli, one who eschews tobacco and all filthiness of the flesh 
and spirit, and after whom the most delicate and sensitive will not 
hesitate to put the cup to her lips; a sympathizing counselor, 
stable and true; and an example to our boys. 

Such are the usual sentiments of Christian Women. 

A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL. 
HOW A BOSTON D. D. GAVE UP TOBACCO. 

The devotee of tobacco who trifles with the habit is a slave 
laughing in his chains. The man who pours scorn on the Anti- 
Tobacco reform shows a pitiable ignorance of what is indispensa- 
ble to elevate and save our race. 

In my abject slavery I was not given to smoke. An English 
gentleman once offered Orestes Bronson his snuff-box. "No, no! 
said the Catholic priest. "I don't serve the devil in that shape, I 
chew." I came under the same category with Orestes, and 
belonged to that portion of the animal creation that chew the cud. 
I rolled the sin as a sweet morsel under my tonc^ue twenty years 
and more. It gave me as a city pastor, intolerable annoyance; 
and was, I may say in truth, a blighting curse upon my min stry. 
My sorrows and tribulations in this quarter were many and severe 
and it may not be amiss to state a few as examples. 

In my parochial duties, I would sometimes be walking up Wash- 
ington street, and see a deacon of my church with Vv'hom I must 
come in close quarters, and in so doing expose my abominable 
habit. Indignant, chagrined, I would spitefully eject my quid, 
resolve never to resume its use, do my best to cleanse my mouth 
and protect my breath, and cordially greet my deacon. The even- 
ing would pass, the night would pass, with but little trouble. The 
morning, however, would come with unearthly and insatiable 
cravings; and it seemed as though I would "give my kingdom" for 
a bit of pig tail or cavendish! I would take to my study, feverish 
and half deirious, or drive for a sermon or lecture. But it was 
all in vain; all thought w^as spellbound. I would walk the diago- 
nal of my room, rub my throbbing temples, and at last, in utter 
despair, rap upon the banister and cry, "John! John! get me 
some tobacco!" 

The tobacco would come, and I would eat it as greedily as an 
ox eats green clover. My delirium tremens would pass away, my 
mind would become clear and calm, and I would drive on my 
sermon respecting self-denial, or consecration to God, or battling 
the "world, the flesh and the devil," in Jehu style! O, how I 
hate tobacco! It makes hypocrites of ministers; it made a hypo- 
crite of me. 

A short time would pass on, and a similar flare-up would occur. 
I would see before me in my walks some sister of my church, 
who would expect a few kind words from her pastor, in an inter- 
view rather unavoidable. But the thought would occur, — oh, 
she will see my mouth! She will detect a habit which she loathes 



46 PIPE AND QUID. 

and which I try to despise. I would cast out the abomination; I 
would resolve never to use another particle — never; and with the 
apparent innocency of a child, greet the sister with usual saluta- 
tions as her pastor and friend. I repeat it, I abhor tobacco. It 
makes hypocrites of ministers; ic made me a hypocrite! 

These are specimens of my battles with this most popular poi- 
son on the globe. At length, however, I fought the last battle, 
with this Appollyon. It was on this wise. I called on a dying 
man, a member of my church. The good brother, on the verge 
of the grave, made many confessions; among the rest he said: 
"Tobacco has been an idol with me. It has brought me to this 
death-bed, and I shall die a happier man if I leave my testimony 
against it; and I wish my testimony to be written." I wrote from 
his dictation. We raised him from his pillow; and the last time 
he ever used his pen he affixed his name to a hum^ble confession 
that he had sinned against God in ruining his health and cutting 
short his life by the use of tobacco. 

This v/as a trying moment. My reflections were painful. I 
was in agony. A dying brother giving his testimony against a 
sin, of which I, his pastor, was guilty. I resolved then as I 
never resolved before. I called God to witness that I renounced 
tobacco totally and forever; and, God be thanked. I can now 
say in truth, I renounced it totally and forever. 

The next morning 1 took my study. The conflict was terrible. 
Hell seemed to be let loose upon my soul. Delirium tremens was 
getting the complete mastery. I saw, or thought I saw Satan 
enter my study and present to my choice 'cavendish," "ladies' 
twist " "honeydew, " and all the infernal paraphenalia of a fash- 
ionable tobacco saloon. I heard him, or thought I heard him 
say, "Come Doctor, why do you spurn me? Try me again. You 
can think, you can write, if you try me again." At this point 
God gave me unwonted courage and resolution. I remembered 
Luther's successful conflict when he hurled his ink-stand at the 
devil, and cried aloud: "You black, slimy, nauseous fiend, 
begone, begone! And the tobacco fiend left my study, and left 
me forever; an epoch in my ministry. 

Reader, if you never used tobacco, but sit in judgment upon my 
statement and count it visionary, allow me to tell you that you 
are as ignorant as Hottentot about this whole matter. 

On the other hand, if you are a victim of the "weed," and call 
us extravagant, we ask you to make the experiment — give it up as 
a finality, once and forever. Otherwise, good friend, please hold 
your peace. — N. Y. Independent. 

/the importance of correct example. 

I am a reformed tobacco user, and know that the habit can be 
overcome. As a member of the M. E. .Church, and one who has 
four sons to instruct, and desiring them not to acquire this habit, 
I ask, How shall I overcome the influence of pastors who are 
sent to this charge with the habit of the use of a narcotic? If I 
tell the boys, as a parent, that he is not a good example, then I 



. PIPE AND QUID. 47 

destroy his influence for good. If I indicate to them that he is a 
good pattern, then the pastor teaches them by exam.ple to use to- 
bacco. Should the minister deny himself for the good of the 
Church, or should parents deny thejnselves, and thereby destroy 
their children. I find in my local \vbrk that many of the sincere 
brethren would reform if the initerant preachers and others would 
give no "uncertain sound." 

In talking with some of my brethren, they say they cannot ab- 
stain from the use of tobacco. I ask, have we not the promise, 
'*My grace is sufficient for thee. (2 Cor. xii, g ) 1 was a tobacco 
user for twenty- eight years. I quit eleven years ago. It was 
grace that enabled me to do so. It is my humble opinion that 
this grace will also enable every body else in the Church to do the 
same. M. M. 

THE NEW RULE ON TOBACCO. 

Our readers have been informed that candidates for admission 
to Annual conferences will hereafter be required to pledge them- 
selves to abstain from the use of tobacco. This new departure 
raises some special questions that may perplex the plain folks. 
All will agree that there are special reasons why ministers should 
not use tobacco. It is offensive to many of those who do not use 
it; and ministers are often brought into close proximity with deli- 
cate women to whom a tobacco-laden breath is injurious. 

The questions that may perplex are these: 

1 . Has the church decided that in no case is tobacco a medi- 
cine? We mean in the case of no future minister. It is well 
knowm that physicians prescribe tobacco in some cases; but the 
pledge required by our church does not make an exception. Is 
this particular exception understood? 

2. What will be the assumed duration of the pledge? As soon 
as the candidate has passed the conference, having taken his 
pledge, he will find himself in the company of brethren not under 
this pledge. As equity is of the essence of every religious obli- 
gation, will not the new minister reason that, whatever may be 
the mysterious purpose of the pledge, k cannot be interpreted so 
as to bind him when it does not bind his peers? Some sort of a 
time-limit may be created by a casuaistical conscience to 
reconcile a personal obligation with the equality of all ministers. 

3. In what way is this new obligation to be enforced? Ought 
there not to be a new question in the review of character at each 
annual conference? For instance, this; "Have all the minis- 
ters who are pledged to abstain from the use of tobacco kept their 
pledge?" In settling this matter it v/ould probably be necessary 
to ascertain, in each case, whether the man passed in before or 
after May 27th, 1880; so that we should have the spectacle of a 
conference ascertaining the moral duties of its members by con- 
sultation of the almanac, and a clear recognition that tobacco-us- 
ing became a (ministerial) sin on the 27th of May, in the year of 
our Lord, 1880-— that is, for seme ministers. This ought not to 
grieve us, if the use of tobacco can in this way be restricted; but 
there is a novelty in the matter which it is well to study in some of 
its bearings. 



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4. Will the older ministers be ashamed to take a pledge fxom 
young ministers which they themselves will not take? This 
is evidently the effect of the new rule. Is this tae 
way the wisdom of a General Conference that did not ab- 
stain from the use of tobacco is to be vindicated. We really hope 
so. When the bishop asks this question, he should call on the 
members of the conference to take the same pledge. What a re- 
form that would be! Within a year, if the bishops did their duty 
to the reform; and if the ministers came to their help with a noble 
spirit, there would not be a tobacco-stained pastor in our whole 
community. The sextons would no longer need to provide spit- 
toons for the pulpit; and the parsonages would no longer be filled 
with the smoke of sinful sacrifices. 

'"eriously, soberly, candidly, there is only one way to give suc- 
cess to this reform. The older members of the conferences must 
unite with the candidates for admission in taking this solemn 
pledge. If they do not, the reform will fail: the pledge will not 
take hold on the consciences of the candidates. The reform will, 
by law, reach its victory — a pastorate undefiled by tobacco— in 
about thirty years. By that time, the tobacco-using pastors will 
have been transferred to— heaven, let us hope. That is, if the law 
works, which we distrust not a little. But there is a swifter way. 
Let all our pastors take the pledge as soon as possible. Let the 
great reform be consummated in one year. 

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